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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Crust-thrash act from Malmö, formed in 2021. Catachrest merges d-beat crust punk with thrash metal from Sweden's southernmost city.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Manchester, England, emerging in 2025. They blend brutal death metal, deathcore, melodic death metal, and thrash into an ambitious assault.
US death metal band mining the darkest corners of the genre with themes drawn from horror and occultism, operating in the American underground tradition.
Death-thrash band from Pordenone in Friuli, active since 2014. Catalepsis delivers relentless aggression from northeastern Italy's metal underground.
Thrash metal band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2014. They bring ripping thrash metal from the Belgian capital, channeling the speed and aggression of the genre's golden era with a modern European edge.
Catalysis channels the Tampa thrash tradition with aggressive, tightly wound riffing and barked vocals that recall the late-80s Bay Area and Florida crossover scenes. Their approach is direct and punishing, favoring speed and groove over technical showboating.
Catalyst blends the brutal low-end crush of death metal with the aggressive forward momentum of thrash, producing a volatile, riff-dense sound well-suited to Virginia Beach's hard-hitting underground. Dual influences keep the music in a relentless mid-to-high tempo range.
Speed and thrash metal band from Rothenthurm, Switzerland, formed in 2017. They channel the raw intensity and breakneck tempos of the classic speed metal era into a modern Swiss thrash attack.
Cataplasma is a thrash/death metal band from Los Ángeles in Chile's Biobío region, originally formed in the early 2000s under the name Carga before settling on their current name. Drawing influence from Chilean legend Dorso as well as international acts like Slayer and Sepultura, the band recorded their debut demo Gore Demencia in 2007 and have remained active in the regional underground metal circuit.
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